The Local Option - 25 Years with AIDS
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Portlander Tom Anderson lived with AIDS for nine years. Thembi's life with the disease is just beginning.
The show features Thembi's AIDS Diary, produced by Joe Richman/Radio Diaries with help from Ben Shapiro, Deborah George, Chris Turpin/ NPR, Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, Sue Johnson, Miyuki Jokiranta, Sean Cole, Britta Frahm, and Samantha Schongalla.
License Thembi's AIDS diary here:
http://prx.org/pieces/11448
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Piece Description
Portlander Tom Anderson lived with AIDS for nine years. Thembi's life with the disease is just beginning. The show features Thembi's AIDS Diary, produced by Joe Richman/Radio Diaries with help from Ben Shapiro, Deborah George, Chris Turpin/ NPR, Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, Sue Johnson, Miyuki Jokiranta, Sean Cole, Britta Frahm, and Samantha Schongalla. License Thembi's AIDS diary here: http://prx.org/pieces/11448 ****I DO NOT GRANT THE RIGHT TO BROADCAST OR REDISTRIBUTE THIS SHOW.****
Broadcast History
The Local Option originates at WMPG in Portland, Maine.
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Emily Hanford
Posted on November 21, 2006 at 10:36 AM | Permalink
Review of The Local Option - 25 Years with AIDS
This is a local showcase program. The "meat" of the program is Thembi's AIDS Diary produced by Joe Richman. It's an excellent piece and if you've not yet heard it, listen! The producer/ host of the showcase program opens the half hour with tape of a local man and his story of being diagnosed with AIDS. It's some nice tape that anchors the story in the local place. The producer/ host gives some data about HIV/ AIDS and uses the data to make a transition from Portland, ME to Thembi's story in South Africa. The program sounds to me like it makes most sense for a local audience in Maine (A local AIDS info line is given out, for example), and that audiences in other parts of the country would be better served by hearing Thembi's story on its own, or cradled with another "local" angle appropriate to the place or time.